"I remember when I was a kid the clean smell of laundry that dried on the clothes line," says Bernie Kiely, a cerftified financial planner and certified public accountant with Kiely Capital Management in Morristown. "You don't get that smell from a clothes dryer."

"One suggestion is an attic fan uses far less energy than an air conditioner," he says. "An attic fan will keep the air moving and will help on a summer day when the humidity is low."